Cable or railway crossing



(No Model.)

I. O. WEIR.

CABLE 0R RAILWAY eeossme.

No. 398,206. Patented Feb. 19, 1889.,

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FREDRIG C. WEIR, ()l? (/INCIYNATI, OIIIO.

CABLE. OR RAILWAY CROSSING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,206, dated February19, 1889.

T aZZ whom 2'25 may concern: the girder-support 1], which preferably Beit known that I, FREDRIC C. IVEIR, of made of the form shown in anapplication of Cincinnati, in the county 'of Hamilton and even dateherewith, filed by F. C. \Veir and 35 State of Ohio, have invented.certain new N. O. Goldsmith, Serial No. 2"4c,912. The rear 5 and usefulImprovements in Cable or Railend of said rail 1 is provided with aguard, way Crossings, of. which the following is a 12, so as to preventderailment at its junction specification. with the ordinary girder-rail,13, as shown in The object of my invention is to provide a Fig. 1. .0street-railway rail that can be readily and In order to connect thetram-rail. 1 to the firmly attached to a cable railway, s) as tostreet-rails, I provide two ears, (5 6, as shown form aprotectirig-guard crossing, the features in Fig. 1, which fit the web0!? said street-rail of which will be fully set tort-l1 in thedescripand are connected thereto, as shown in Fig. tion of theaccompanying drawings, making 2, by bolts 8. a part of thisspecification, in which 11 represents the girder or support of said 1' 5Figure 1 is a top plan view of Fig. 2. Fig. rail 1. Rail. 1 is made oftwo sections, the

2 is a side elevation showing the tram-rail inner ends ot' which arebolted to the slotconnected to a slot-rail and a street-railway rails.rail. Fig. 3 is a central verticalsection of my Having described myinvtmtion, what I improvement unit-ed to a slot-rail. Fig. 1 is claimis- 5 20 a detail view of my improved rail in cross- 1. The cmssing-rail1, provided with base section. 2, tramway 3, flange 1, and the ears 5,sub- I representsa railwaya'ail provided with the stantially as hereinset forth. I fiange-hase 2 and tramway 3 and the guard 4, 3. Thecrossing-rail 1, provided with hosses as shown in cross seetion, Fig. 3.In order to 9, cars 5 and 6,with the tramway 3, and guard 2 5 provide astrong support for the crossing, the 4-, substantially as hereinspecified.

rail, 1 is provided with ears 5 6, cast on with In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set said rails of a shape to [it the webs of the slotmyhand. ted rails andthe girder-rails to which the are respectivelyCOIIIIGCIGCI by means of hglts 7 30 and In order to make the rail strongin \Vit-nesses:

cross-section, I make bosses 9, through which ROBERT ZAHNER, passvertical bolts 10, to secure said rails to J. IVATSON SIMS.

Application filed May 24, 1888. $erial No. 274,974. (No model.)

